Table of contents for July - August 2022 in Parchment Craft

… and welcome to the July/August edition of your favourite parchment craft magazine! What a collection of projects you have to choose from this edition! As always our wonderful contributors have worked hard to bring you a variety of designs incorporating a range of techniques and covering a range of themes! We kick off the edition with a workshop from Lesley Shore who shares her advice on achieving perfect picot cutting. If you’ve ever struggled with this then let Lesley’s tips help you achieve perfection with practise! Once you’ve mastered the perfect cut, head to page 12 for the perfect project to show off your skills! If you’re looking to create something ultra pretty then Kay James’ Seashells project on page 21 is just the ticket, as is Alison Yeates’…

Perga Colours Exclusive, £25.94 pergamano.com Perga Colours Exclusive (PCE) are markers with a water based ink. The ink can be applied to the parchment paper with or without a brush. The perga colours exclusive give you the opportunity to create beautiful projects using a relatively simple technique. Each PCE has 2 different tips: a thick and a thinner tip which makes it even easier to apply colour. The numbers on the perga colours exclusive correspond to the numbers in the Pergamano pattern instructions. The PCE’s are packed in a luxury tube with no less than 30 different colours.…

Trace Trace the outlines and the sentiment in white pencil or using a mapping pen and white ink. Trace the bee using a black fine liner or a mapping pen and black ink. Use black to trace the sections in the flower head. Remove any visible pencil lines with an eraser. Colour Using yellow plus a small amount of yellow ochre and black oil-based blendable pencils, colour the head, body and legs of the bee. Use short flicking strokes for the body to look a little furry and work one shade slightly into the other. Colour the wings with a very pale blue and then add a touch of a darker shade to the ‘vein’ joins. Colour the flower: Start by using an orange shade and work from both the…

You will need Your basic tool kit plus: PCA Large, Medium and Micro Sun embossing tools Pergamano Plus Trace • Secure your plain parchment paper to the pattern and with your white pencil or mapping pen trace all the elements on the pattern. Emboss With a large and small ball tools emboss the outlines. With a sun tool emboss as shown in the pattern. With an extra small ball tool emboss within your semi-square perforations in the outline. Remove any visible pencil lines with an eraser. Perforate • With your 2-needle and semi-square perforating tools, perforate as shown on the pattern. Cut • Cut all perforations with scissors or snips as shown on the pattern. Perforate Place a piece of A4…

Trace Place a piece of plain parchment paper over the pattern and secure in place. With a white pencil or white ink and mapping pen, trace the 3D flowers, square border, arch and water. With black fine liner pen, trace the rest of the image. Colour Working on the back of your work, with Polychromo pencils, colour as follows and blend with Dorso Oil. Colour the flower petals and watering can with dark cadmium orange. Colour the leaves with earth green yellowish (Step 1). Emboss With a 1mm embossing tool, emboss the outlines of the 3D flowers. With relevant sized embossing tools, shadow emboss the flower petals, working from the centres outwards, the leaves from the top downwards and the watering can according to the image With the Pergamano wheel…

To start Rub the reverse of plain parchment with a tumble dryer sheet. Attach the parchment over the pattern and secure in place with low-tack tape. Trace With a white pencil, or ink and mapping pen, trace the line around the outside of the pattern. With a sepia pen trace the ornamental frame around the central picture. With the white pencil again trace all the fruit. Emboss Turn the parchment to work on the reverse. With your smallest ball tool emboss all the white lines. With a large tool emboss the frame, plus the ‘shine’ on the apples and cherries (shown as seen from the reverse) (Step 1). Colour Using the blendable pencils, work on the reverse of the parchment over the top of the embossing, smoothing out with a…

Colouring Petals: Secure a piece of plain parchment on to the pattern. Work on the sweetpea image as follows – do not trace the pattern first: Using white and a small circular motion place a base layer on all flower heads and buds. Using cream and a small circular motion place a base layer on all leaves, stems and calyx (step 1). Using rose carmine – again small circular motions but ensuring that the top edge of each petal is sharp colour as in step 2. With medium flesh – this time in stokes pulling colour from the top edge of the petalgooverall of the rose carmine and extend the colour to cover the top half of each petal. Using your stroking action pull the rose carmine down into the…

SALLY We’re off to Hastings for a week after seeing it on television and thinking how lovely it looked! JOANNE It’s a staycation for us this year, we just need to decide where! AMANDA I have a week booked off work but no destination as yet, might look for a last minute deal with sun, sea and sand BRETT To the outback! Outback of the house – the garden! (I probably said the same thing last year too… and the year before that). ANNA I'm heading to beautiful Scotland for my friend’s wedding. EMILY My boyfriend and I are jetting off to Venice for a week. I'm looking forward to eating lots of lovely Italian food and exploring the island. EMMALEE Going to Seville in August – looking forward to…

You will need Your basic tool kit plus: Pergamano Plus JUDITH’S TOP TIP To create a fine line, hold your pen almost upright so only the tip of the nib is touching the parchment. To avoid blots, always clean out your nib before dipping back into the ink. Try to leave your work to rest for a day before going back to lightly emboss again. Gridwork Cut a piece of parchment to measure 18x24cm. Rub the back of the parchment with a tumble dryer sheet and attach to the bold diagonal grid using low-tack tape Create the grid border first. Perforate the pattern, then flip over to emboss. Remove the parchment from the grid. Trace Attach the parchment over the pattern, making…

Trace Trace the outer edges, the heart shapes and the sentiments in white using a pencil or mapping pen and white ink. There is no need to trace the circles. Remove any visible pencil lines with an eraser Shallow perforate • Using a thin mat beneath the work, perforate around the inside of each circle with a mini semi-circle tool. Work with your parchment still attached to the pattern to add in the position of the tool. (NB if you have a PCA mini-scallop tool, this will fit, but remember it is a cutting tool and its use will result in 4 circular apertures. These can be used to place suitable embellishments or photographs on the backing card to give a different look. Emboss Emboss the outer edges using a…

Trace Using a blue pen, trace the two outer squares and the parts of circles between the writing. Using a white pencil trace the border between the sea and sky. Using a black pen, trace everything else (Step 1). Shallow perforate • Using the semi-square tool, perforate the circles by perforating once then turning the tool and positioning the outer two edge needles into the corresponding holes to make the circle. Paint Using Wink of Stella, paint a base coat over the tree, sun, shells and glass. Paint in colours of your choice with felttipped pens by applying some to a palette and picking up with a slightly damp brush (Step 2). Remove from pattern, turn to the back. Colour • With blendable pencils, apply colour to the sky, sea…

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You will need Your basic tool kit plus: Pergamano And Trace Place a piece of plain parchment paper over the pattern and with a white pencil, trace the dashed lines. With a black fine liner pen, trace the remaining lines and the 3D butterfly. Colour Working on the front of your work, with a black fine liner pen, colour the spots and bodies of the butterflies. Working on the back of your work, with Perga Colours Exclusive pens, colour the flower petals, leaves and butterflies in colours of your choice. Achieving a good, consistent picot edge and clean cut crosses takes practice. Don’t be put off if it doesn’t happen on…

FRONT LAYER Trace Place a piece of plain parchment paper over the pattern and secure. With a white pencil or ink and mapping pen, trace all the lines except for the outer border. Emboss • With a 3mm embossing tool, emboss the solid traced lines. Perforate/Emboss With a semi-square perforating tool, shallow perforate around the square border and the large diamond. With a 1.5mm embossing tool, emboss inside the semi-square perforations according to Diagram 1. Re-perforate deeply with the semi-square perforating tool (Step 1). With a 2-needle perforating tool, perforate around the inside of the cross hatch lines (Step 2). Cut With parchment scissors or snips, cut between the 2-needle perforations. Cut between the outer semi-square perforations of the square border. Cut between the inner semi-square perforations according to Diagram…

Next month Lesley’s workshop demonstrates how to create a parchment feather! Maybe you might like to add this to this design! You will need Your basic tool kit plus: PCA: Pergamano: Plus: Trace Secureyourlavenderblueparchment paper to the pattern, shiny side up with low-tack tape. With a white pencil trace the outline and the wavy bands within the outlines. Secureyourplainparchmentpaper to the pattern and with a white pencil trace all lines on the pattern. Secureyourplainparchmentpaper to the pattern and trace the straight and zig zag lines with a white pencil. Emboss With your large and small ball tools emboss the outlines in all relevant layers. With your small sun embossing tool emboss between the semi-circle and…